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(No'ModeL) 4 T. W. BRAUHHITL SWEATBAND FOR HATS.

'Patented-Aphf lj, 1888.

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r SWEAT-BANDIFOR HATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,208,6ated April 17.;1ase.

Application filed December 512, 1887 Serial No. 258,641. (Noi'nodeL) I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. BRAGHER, 1

, a resident of the city, county, and State of New York. have invented anIinproved Sweat- Band'for Hats,-of which the following isa specification.

The object of my invention is to provide .certain improvements in thesweat-band for hats forwhich I obtained Letters Patent No. 367,266, dated July 26,1887.- In said patent is shown a sweat-band havinga spring or reed situated on its outer or hat sideand which is retained in position by th reads passing through the band and over said reed,

My present improvement consists in a sweatband having a spring or reed placed directly on the raw edge thereof a thread running along the outer edge of 'said spring and another thread passing through thesWeat-band and interlocking with the threads along the edge of the spring, thereby holding said reed securely on the raw edge of the band by direct pressure upon the outer edge of said reed, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

' Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,

- in which Figure 1 represents a face view of a portion of a sweat-band embodying my in1-- provements. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the band. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line 0 c of Fig.

, 3; and Fig. 5 is a similar view to Fig, 4, showingacovering forthe spring. 1

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents a portion of a sweat-bandfor hats or caps. The raw edge of said baud, where it is to be attached to the cap,-niay be beveled, as. shown.

B is a spring or reed, of suitable construction, Which is placed directly. upon the raw edge a of the band A, ,as clearly shown, and it is held in position onsaid raw edge by binding-threads d e, as shown. The thread 01 runs along the spring B, and the thread e, passes .terlo'oks with the thread d on the spring B, as

shown. The manner of forming these stitches 4 I I is clearly described in said Patent N o. 367 ,266, and I need therefore not'further describe the same here, but refer to the'desoription in said 0 patentfor details. In said p'atent the reed is held to the band by the lateral pressure of "the g thread 6; but in the construction shown herein the reed is held on the edge of the band by the direct longitudinal pull of the thread e, acting 5 from the outer edge of the reed through the thread d, to the point where the thread e passes through theband. Thismakes a'strong fastening, the pressure of the threads being so distributed that there is little or no danger of 6o 7 ure upon the head.

I may cover the spring .B with a pieceof 7o fabric, if I so desire, as indicatedin Fig. 5.

Having now described my'inv'ention, what I claim is J v Aisweat-band hav ng areed or spr ng, ,l3,

placed directly upon the raw edge. thereof, a

thread, d,'runnipg alongsaid springyanda thread, e, passing through the band'and'over "the s'pringand interlocking with the threadd' on the spring, said thread '6 acting with a direct longitudinal pull throughthethread d upon the outer edge of the spring to hold said spring upon the raw edge of the bandgasspecinee, v I

, Witnessesi- T. F. BOURNE, 'j

' HARRY Mi TURK.

through the band and over the spring and in- 5 

